offices have become interruption factories. A busy office is like a food processor—it chops your day into tiny bits. Fifteen minutes here, ten minutes there, twenty here, five there. Each segment is filled with a conference call, a meeting, another meeting, or some other institutionalized unnecessary interruption. It’s incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments. Meaningful work, creative work, thoughtful work, important work—this type of effort takes stretches of uninterrupted time to get into the zone. But in the modern office such...

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Three-fold increase in calls to helpline for GAA players in
the Ireland section of
The Irish Times
by Ronan McGreevy

Three-fold increase in calls to helpline for GAA players Ronan McGreevy | 365 words The number of senior inter-county GAA players accessing a confidential counselling service has tripled this year, a conference will hear today. The Gaelic Players Association (GPA) counselling service is expected to deal with 80 senior footballers and hurlers this year. The same service dealt with 27 players last year. The spike in usage is being attributed to the greater willingness of sports people to talk about mental health issues. In the past year Cavan goalkeeper Alan O'Meara has spoken publicly about depression...

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In his victory speech in Saarbrücken, Hitler declared, ‘In the end, blood is stronger than any documents of mere paper. What ink has written will one day be blotted out by blood.’ Versailles, the Locarno Treaty, anti-aggression pacts – these were all just scraps of paper to Hitler. The Volk, war and imperial expansion were all that mattered.